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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
allowing one dumpling for each person. Pare them, and scoop the core out without breaking them. FiQ each cavity ^s-ith a clove, a littlo piece of butter, and as much sug\ar as will till it. Cover each apple separately '»\'ith a little piece of suet paste, tie in a floured cloth, and boil. Before serving, put a little piece of butterApple Dumplings (another way) and sugar into each dumpling. Loosely- knitted cloths are very nice for puddings ; they are most easily washed, and produce a pretty effect. Boil half an hour-. Probable cost, 2d. each dumpling. Apple Dumplings, Baked.— For a change, apple dumphugs may be baked instead of boiled. They are made exactly in the same way as the preceding, but instead of being tied in a cloth and boiled, they are placed upon a buttered tin, a^d put into a moderate oven. Time to bake, three-quarters of an hour. Pro- bable cost, 2d. each. Jt Apple Flummery.— Pare, core, aiia slice two pounds of apples, and put them into a stewpan with one pound of sugar, the finely- chopped rind of a lemon, and sufficient water to cover them. Let them stew gently vmtil quite tender, then di-ain them from "the juice, and beat them to a pulp. Soak an ounce of_ gelatine in a little cold water for twenty minutes. Put it into a saucepan with the apple-juice, and stir until the gelatine is dis- solved : add the apples and a cupfid of cream. Stir for a few minutes over the fire, but do not let the mixtiu-e boil. Turn it into a mould that has been soaked in cold water, let it stand until stiff, then tm-n out, and pom- a good custard •ovej it. Time to stifien, eight or ten hours. Probable cost Is. lOd., exclusive of the custard. Sufficient for six persons. Apple Fool.— Take two pounds of apples pared and cored. Put them into a saucepan with a cupful of water, one or two cloves, and sugar to taste. Let them simmer till qiute soft, and beat them well with a wooden spoon. Mix with them, gradually, a pint of new milk, or milk and cream, boiled and allowed to become cold, SAveetened and flavom-ed. Time to sim- mer the apples, about half an hour. Probable cost, made with nulk, 8d. Sufficient for fom- Apple Pool (another way). — Prepare the apple in the same way as in the preceding case ; but instead of adding milk to the fruit, mix ■ndth it a good cold custard. Apple Fritters.— ilake a smooth, stiff batter of half a pound of flour, a httle salt, one table-spoonful of clarified butter, three wcll-beaten eggs, about a quarter of a pint of mUk, and a table- spoonful of beer: the latter may be omitted. Pare and scoop out the cores of a few large apples ; sHce them in rounds about haH an inch thick ; strew sugar thickly over them, and let them remain for two hom-s. Then tlu'ow them into the batter ; take each piece out separately, and fry it in plenty of hot lard or oil. When they are nicely bro-wned on both sides, lay them on r. piece of blotting- paper to absorb the grease : then heap them up on a hot dish, and serve with sugar. Time, APP (.16 APP eight minutes to fry. Probable cost, lOd. Sufficient for four persons. Apple Fritters, Hich. — Take a pint of Apple Flummery